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Originally Posted by momraine
People from other countries can adopt from US foster care. However, most of the children are older and/or special needs.
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Yes, but I think the OP said she wanted an infant. Its very difficult to adopt infants from foster care unless you foster a child first or the child has severe special needs. If the state government rarely allows its own citizens living in a different state to participate in the foster/adopt program I serious doubt they will allow foreigners to.
Most agencies will also tell you its very hard to get a child under the age of 7 or 8 years old if you live in a different state/country UNLESS that child has younger siblings and maybe if they are member of a minority group or have moderate special needs
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Originally Posted by KarynB
Just to correct in case anyone reads this for future reference - the Hague does not forbid placements of children abroad...
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Your right Karyn, it just that when
private adoption takes place do the tables start to turn. One of the reason Guatemala is in limbo is because they were placing infants privately which is not allowed under Hague Convention rules. In the USA many states allow adoptive parents to use facilatators to find infants and we all know that using a facilatator in international adoption is generally
not recommended.
I have met a few Canadians online who were trying to adopt from here but the Hague Convention came into place and were not grandfathered in the system therefore losing their matches or applications. I don't want this to happen to the OP so it would be best to consider foster care adoption or a different country.